“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
Most of the “mathematical breakthroughs” from AI have been done by loading all available recent research from humans solving the problem, and then collating it while skipping reviews and telling the humans who did the work it would literally be “too complicated” to explain the AI didn’t actually do anything…
It’s all just lies to drive up stock prices, what they release appears to be stuff that would be released shortly anyways, it’s just being dumped at once 99% of the way done before it’s verified.
I’m assuming this is about the 372 math “breakthroughs” they recently posted. The top “discoveries” seem to be trivial cases that don’t give much insight into the broader conjectures and many of them don’t even have a lean proof so they can’t remotely be trusted as correct (and having a lean proof isn’t necessarily proof that it’s correct either). They basically crapped out everything the AI did and said you figure out!
I don’t have an English source, but on this trustworthy French public service radio scientific podcast, 2 mathematicians (from reputed organizations, including one Henri Poincaré Prize) are discussing the Navier-Stokes AI solution. https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-science-cqfd/ia-et-mathematiques-quand-la-solution-pose-probleme-5497880
They say that the results are legitimate and proven through mathematical proof software. It did build on recent progress by humans, but it would still have taken years for humans to get there, because AI could explore so many paths in a much shorter time than a few human specialists can.
They explain the help from AI is technically remarkable, and people who don’t recognize it are in denial. They think mathematics research without AI will not make any sense soon. There’s also some hope that it will allow focusing on new interesting problems that the current AI cannot solve yet. They also discuss the problem of AI being owned by foreign mega corporations and that’s a risk for public research produced for the common good.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this unpopular opinion here, just know that I also hate the social and environmental impact of AI, but denying its effectiveness is clearly irrational now.
Ok but actual practical real world use case exists for this? So we know that in theory an imaginary thing that doesn’t exist could create a singularity event?
Honestly seems like it’s not useful but I’m not a mathematician so I don’t really know.
I am more skeptical. Even with Navier Stokes, I never heard anyone actually internalize the result and have trust in it. I just heard vague lean-dih waving.
Supposedly it’s 26000 subtheorems of goobledigook, feels untameable.
Mathematicians seemingly: Axioms are correct, we trust lean => Result correct.
As a physics, CS thinker: AI probably found a bug in our axioms. And/or usual self-referential math issue. And/or connected to Goedel’s incompleteness. Also I wonder why I even trust lean as much, havent even read its code. Most software works great until somebody starts poking at its limits.
How the robot proves these statement is by writing LEAN code that represents the math. If the lean compiles, the math was valid. If it doesn’t, it tries again.
It will do this forever until it finds a solution.
Goedel predicted this in 1933, btw. From his work on formal systems, he ascertained that since every mathematical statement is trivially true following from the rigorous application of the axioms of mathematics or entirely false, theorems could be checked and proven automatically.
These systems are able to prove statements at a scale beyond humans, because they have effectively infinite time to exhaustively explore applying every rule.
Unfortunately, this isn’t all that helpful for the various fields of math as a whole. Effectively they have a list of statements and a second column with ‘true’ or ‘false’, but the actual route taken by the models to get that answer is often incredibly indirect and therefore difficult to gain insight from and apply to new areas. The approach taken to produce an answer is often more valuable to the field than the answer itself.
The field moves forward when the people in it understand the new results and techniques sufficiently to begin asking new questions, simply giving the answer isn’t all that useful. The robots cannot (yet) do this. Someone has to, at a minimum, pose the question in formal mathematical language. There are an infinite number of true statements in mathematics ( trivial example 1=1, 2=2, …) asking the interesting questions is the important part. The field will still only advance as fast as the people in it are able to digest results.
Further, results in pure math do not generalize to the more applied fields that directly affect our ability to do things. Most engineering formulae are NOT rigorously true - they are weak approximations with envelopes of applicability. The same is true even in base physics. So while a robot can crank through ten million lines of lean to prove an obscure theorem, it cannot think about physics for a week and come up with a theory of quantum gravity.
Assume all that is true, AI can really do well in these fields, but there are some other fields it can’t do well in.
Now who is going to work on those fields? Who is going to take the risk of studying for it, practicing for years, being an expert in the field that takes maybe a decade, and the AI can suddenly solve your field too, and you don’t get anything.
Because the AI contribution was so huge was surely the reason openAI did not want to give any credit to the researches that worked on the foundation for that breakthrough.
Super fucking sorry that my finding a way around the paywall wasn’t good enough for you.
@[email protected] could have probably worded their comment in a less aggressive tone, but this is not about not being “good enough”. This is about archive.is running malicious code on users’ browsers.
In conversations with WIRED, the academics say they feel the field has become a playground for OpenAI and its rival Anthropic to show off their models as both prepare for blockbuster initial public offerings. In their rush to outdo each other, mathematicians say, traditional scientific processes for releasing and attributing results have been cast aside.
The most striking case so far came in September. OpenAI deployed thousands of agents to solve a legendary million-dollar Millennium Prize problem after hearing “rumors” that others were closing in on solutions. Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematician and professor at New York University, accused the company of front-running the work he had done toward solving an element of the problem in a personal collaboration with Anthropic employee Levent Alpöge. The pair hadn’t published their work but had been using OpenAI’s tools to help them.
Humans stole human work for their bots…
During an attempt to negotiate credit, Buckmaster claims, OpenAI researcher Sébastien Bubeck seemed to imply that Alpöge should be excluded from any paper, since that would make things complicated. (In response to a request for comment, Bubeck pointed to a previous public statement in which he denied asking for Alpöge to not be listed as an author.) Buckmaster said he refused. In a call, Bubeck claimed that there is some worry about what Anthropic is doing, according to meeting notes seen by WIRED. Levent must be talking to his leadership right now letting them know fucking OpenAI can get a Millennium Prize problem, he said, per the notes. What’s to stop Anthropic from giving all their compute to get a Millennium Prize problem?
The humans stole the credit from the other human to give it to chatbots…
According to the notes, Bubeck also seemed to suggest that Buckmaster would be ruining his career when Buckmaster threatened to tell the press about his belief that OpenAI had stolen his work. If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice, Bubeck said, according to the meeting notes.
The humans at OpenAI threatened the human if he tried to claim credit.
I’m talking about models specialized at theorem proving.
That’s not what the article is about or anyone is talking about…
They’re talking about something much worse and you’re ignoring it and trying to get everyone to talk about something else.
I don’t know why you’re doing, but I’m already doubting you’re going to stop. Either in this thread or any other place you want to shove an uninformed opinion about an unrelated topic.
You saw a headline, and replied to a comment that provided a non paywall link…
Talking about something completely different than the article…
And got kind of upset when the person tried clarify that you weren’t talking about the article.
Maybe this will help:
Imagine you and your friends are talking about Pokemon, and I walked up and started talking about Yugioh, then yelled at you and all your friends when they didn’t want to talk about Yugioh with me and instead continued your existing conversation.
Hopefully that helps, I’ll never know. Because I have a feeling I’m not the first to try and you’ll do this again later.
Your understanding of what they did is not correct. But also fuck OpenAI I am not going to explain their bullshit for them. So anyway put Sam Altman in prison is all I am going to say.
I hate AI, but I’d much rather work for an AI over the idiot higher leadership at my company. They use AI for everything anyway, including literally answering emails.
I know people always say that, but there still needs to be executives so there’s still humans to be held accountable.
The vast amount of middle management are useless, but there has to be a human sitting in a chair above the chatbot for legal liability. Otherwise the board will just blame the chatbot for everything.
That also doesn’t mean they should be paid so much, just that a human needs to be above the chatbot as far as final authority
Holding people accountable, means we have to hold people accountable…
The solution to not holding people accountable, isn’t to make it harder to hold people accountable. The solution is actually holding the right people accountable.
I mean, yeah, I’m not arguing with your conclusions, I just think you’re overly optimistic.
Nobody is talking about putting Altman in jail for violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, even though that’s exactly what should be happening. Instead they’ve got investors lining up around the block to buy a piece of it.
Nobody is talking about putting Altman in jail for violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, even though that’s exactly what should be happening.
Republicans control the House, Senate, and Oval right now…
Do I really need to explain why they’re not doing anything?
You can’t figure that one out on you’re own?
I just think you’re overly optimistic
Midterms are in a month…
You seem a bit defensive though.
Because midterms are in a month, and a shit ton of people are pushing really hard that nothing can ever be done so it’s pointless to try.
Be a doomer after midterms and I won’t give a fuck. But right now trump and the AI techbros are spending a shit ton of money to convince the left not to vote.
With a structure like that the board would be the ones responsible for the AI output. Lol, I think your suggestion just means inserting a fall guy between the board and the ai
Saying we’ll hold the board responsible if chatbots get to run corporations is almost as ludacris of a prediction as billionaires saying they’ll support a socialist utopia if we let chatbots take everyone’s jobs…
https://archive.is/20261006201825/https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-pissing-off-a-bunch-of-mathematicians-again/
TLDR:
Most of the “mathematical breakthroughs” from AI have been done by loading all available recent research from humans solving the problem, and then collating it while skipping reviews and telling the humans who did the work it would literally be “too complicated” to explain the AI didn’t actually do anything…
It’s all just lies to drive up stock prices, what they release appears to be stuff that would be released shortly anyways, it’s just being dumped at once 99% of the way done before it’s verified.
It’s a 20/80 rule thing.
Coming up with a proof is the first 20% of work. Actually checking and validating the proof is the next 80% of work.
I learned it as 80/20 rule where the first 80% of progress is made with 20% of effort, and the last 20% of progress takes 80% of the effort.
It’s true im many layers deep in it help
I’m assuming this is about the 372 math “breakthroughs” they recently posted. The top “discoveries” seem to be trivial cases that don’t give much insight into the broader conjectures and many of them don’t even have a lean proof so they can’t remotely be trusted as correct (and having a lean proof isn’t necessarily proof that it’s correct either). They basically crapped out everything the AI did and said you figure out!
I don’t have an English source, but on this trustworthy French public service radio scientific podcast, 2 mathematicians (from reputed organizations, including one Henri Poincaré Prize) are discussing the Navier-Stokes AI solution. https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-science-cqfd/ia-et-mathematiques-quand-la-solution-pose-probleme-5497880
They say that the results are legitimate and proven through mathematical proof software. It did build on recent progress by humans, but it would still have taken years for humans to get there, because AI could explore so many paths in a much shorter time than a few human specialists can.
They explain the help from AI is technically remarkable, and people who don’t recognize it are in denial. They think mathematics research without AI will not make any sense soon. There’s also some hope that it will allow focusing on new interesting problems that the current AI cannot solve yet. They also discuss the problem of AI being owned by foreign mega corporations and that’s a risk for public research produced for the common good.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this unpopular opinion here, just know that I also hate the social and environmental impact of AI, but denying its effectiveness is clearly irrational now.
Ok but actual practical real world use case exists for this? So we know that in theory an imaginary thing that doesn’t exist could create a singularity event?
Honestly seems like it’s not useful but I’m not a mathematician so I don’t really know.
I am more skeptical. Even with Navier Stokes, I never heard anyone actually internalize the result and have trust in it. I just heard vague lean-dih waving.
Supposedly it’s 26000 subtheorems of goobledigook, feels untameable.
Mathematicians seemingly: Axioms are correct, we trust lean => Result correct.
As a physics, CS thinker: AI probably found a bug in our axioms. And/or usual self-referential math issue. And/or connected to Goedel’s incompleteness. Also I wonder why I even trust lean as much, havent even read its code. Most software works great until somebody starts poking at its limits.
How the robot proves these statement is by writing LEAN code that represents the math. If the lean compiles, the math was valid. If it doesn’t, it tries again.
It will do this forever until it finds a solution.
Goedel predicted this in 1933, btw. From his work on formal systems, he ascertained that since every mathematical statement is trivially true following from the rigorous application of the axioms of mathematics or entirely false, theorems could be checked and proven automatically.
These systems are able to prove statements at a scale beyond humans, because they have effectively infinite time to exhaustively explore applying every rule.
Unfortunately, this isn’t all that helpful for the various fields of math as a whole. Effectively they have a list of statements and a second column with ‘true’ or ‘false’, but the actual route taken by the models to get that answer is often incredibly indirect and therefore difficult to gain insight from and apply to new areas. The approach taken to produce an answer is often more valuable to the field than the answer itself.
The field moves forward when the people in it understand the new results and techniques sufficiently to begin asking new questions, simply giving the answer isn’t all that useful. The robots cannot (yet) do this. Someone has to, at a minimum, pose the question in formal mathematical language. There are an infinite number of true statements in mathematics ( trivial example 1=1, 2=2, …) asking the interesting questions is the important part. The field will still only advance as fast as the people in it are able to digest results.
Further, results in pure math do not generalize to the more applied fields that directly affect our ability to do things. Most engineering formulae are NOT rigorously true - they are weak approximations with envelopes of applicability. The same is true even in base physics. So while a robot can crank through ten million lines of lean to prove an obscure theorem, it cannot think about physics for a week and come up with a theory of quantum gravity.
Assume all that is true, AI can really do well in these fields, but there are some other fields it can’t do well in.
Now who is going to work on those fields? Who is going to take the risk of studying for it, practicing for years, being an expert in the field that takes maybe a decade, and the AI can suddenly solve your field too, and you don’t get anything.
Because the AI contribution was so huge was surely the reason openAI did not want to give any credit to the researches that worked on the foundation for that breakthrough.
My server contribution is huge too, hosting shit all the time. Given as much, I wonder if I can void the licenses of the software I use.
Depends. Are you an AI company?
sidenote: why do people still use archive.today and archive.is, even after it tampered with archived snapshots, and used website visitors to DDOS other websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
Why not just use archive.org?
Super fucking sorry that my finding a way around the paywall wasn’t good enough for you.
But of course, you couldn’t even link it either for some reason.
So here’s what I say we do:
You block me so you never see me putting effort in, you’d have came here, not seen my link or any discussion.
And then maybe you’d actually provide your paywall removed link for everyone instead of bitching.
Now I’m doing something to, don’t worry.
I’m going to block you, because obviously it’s hard for me to put up stupid shit like this.
And I just never want to see anything from you again.
Everyone wins champ.
@[email protected] could have probably worded their comment in a less aggressive tone, but this is not about not being “good enough”. This is about archive.is running malicious code on users’ browsers.
Cool.
You should put the time in to find a better link then, and post it for people.
That would be productive. But I’ll never know if you figure that out or not
If you skip peer review I don’t give a shit about what you planning"publish."
I’m not vetting your bullshit when I write.
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Humans stole human work for their bots…
The humans stole the credit from the other human to give it to chatbots…
The humans at OpenAI threatened the human if he tried to claim credit.
But you really should read the full article
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That’s not what the article is about or anyone is talking about…
They’re talking about something much worse and you’re ignoring it and trying to get everyone to talk about something else.
I don’t know why you’re doing, but I’m already doubting you’re going to stop. Either in this thread or any other place you want to shove an uninformed opinion about an unrelated topic.
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That’s not what you did…
You saw a headline, and replied to a comment that provided a non paywall link…
Talking about something completely different than the article…
And got kind of upset when the person tried clarify that you weren’t talking about the article.
Maybe this will help:
Imagine you and your friends are talking about Pokemon, and I walked up and started talking about Yugioh, then yelled at you and all your friends when they didn’t want to talk about Yugioh with me and instead continued your existing conversation.
Hopefully that helps, I’ll never know. Because I have a feeling I’m not the first to try and you’ll do this again later.
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Your understanding of what they did is not correct. But also fuck OpenAI I am not going to explain their bullshit for them. So anyway put Sam Altman in prison is all I am going to say.
If you really thought that, you could have just typed what you thought I was wrong about instead of a literally useless comment…
I do not want to appear like I want to defend them because I don’t.
Objectivity does not work with the average person. You will trigger people and will get downvoted. I understand what you mean, but… yeah, just don’t
Doing 10%, or less, of the work and taking credit for it. Add this to the bucket for “Reasons AI can replace the C-suite”
I hate AI, but I’d much rather work for an AI over the idiot higher leadership at my company. They use AI for everything anyway, including literally answering emails.
I know people always say that, but there still needs to be executives so there’s still humans to be held accountable.
The vast amount of middle management are useless, but there has to be a human sitting in a chair above the chatbot for legal liability. Otherwise the board will just blame the chatbot for everything.
That also doesn’t mean they should be paid so much, just that a human needs to be above the chatbot as far as final authority
When was the last time a CEO or board member was held accountable? Or any time? Apart from that dude that caught a bullet.
Who is saying they shouldn’t be held accountable?
Like, it’s like you’re arguing we need to disband the fire department because we keep having house fires…
Bankman-Fried. Elizabeth Holmes. Martin Shkreli.
There should be far more, but on occasion, it does happen.
I said no such thing. They should be held accountable. They just never are.
Buddy…
I didn’t say you said they shouldn’t be held accountable…
I’m saying I wasn’t saying that, that no one was saying that…
But I don’t think trying to clarify any of this is gonna be productive
Of course that logic requires that executives actually be held accountable… for instance, due to illegal behavior on the part of their company…
Yes…
Holding people accountable, means we have to hold people accountable…
The solution to not holding people accountable, isn’t to make it harder to hold people accountable. The solution is actually holding the right people accountable.
I’m glad we can get on the same page
I mean, yeah, I’m not arguing with your conclusions, I just think you’re overly optimistic.
Nobody is talking about putting Altman in jail for violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, even though that’s exactly what should be happening. Instead they’ve got investors lining up around the block to buy a piece of it.
You seem a bit defensive though.
Republicans control the House, Senate, and Oval right now…
Do I really need to explain why they’re not doing anything?
You can’t figure that one out on you’re own?
Midterms are in a month…
Because midterms are in a month, and a shit ton of people are pushing really hard that nothing can ever be done so it’s pointless to try.
Be a doomer after midterms and I won’t give a fuck. But right now trump and the AI techbros are spending a shit ton of money to convince the left not to vote.
Don’t do their work for them.
Who said anything about not voting?
With a structure like that the board would be the ones responsible for the AI output. Lol, I think your suggestion just means inserting a fall guy between the board and the ai
…
Saying we’ll hold the board responsible if chatbots get to run corporations is almost as ludacris of a prediction as billionaires saying they’ll support a socialist utopia if we let chatbots take everyone’s jobs…
I dig how you went with the rapper spelling.
The idea that CEOs would be held accountable for anything is just wishful thinking at this point.